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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by rnk on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:41PM (#35549750)
NTFs seem silly. You own a digital asset on a block chain. But anyone could use a jpeg, it just has no real value to have so-called ownership.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by PretzelPirate on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:55AM (#35554050)
Small correction: NFTs that point to images is one example of how to use the NFT standard, not what an NFT is.

The NFT discussion always ends up at "its just a link to a jpeg", when there are NFTs that have nothing to do with images.

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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by rnk on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:46PM (#35560193)
Can you give me some examples of these other kinds of NFTs that are useful then?
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by yellowapple on Friday April 14, 2023 @03:22PM (#35573576)
California's DMV investigating them for licenses/registrations is an example that hit HN's front page earlier this week.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by rnk on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:56PM (#35605733)
This is interesting because I haven't heard of this. Would it be something like your license is controlled by you? Somehow you have to keep it private though. Having someone control a position on the blockchain wouldn't seem to be that different than name and password. You can use that to prove who you are, and you can lose that just like you can lose control of your crypto wallet if you forget your password or someone guesses it or hacks your machine.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by yellowapple on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:29AM (#35650387)
One workaround would be to store the license/registration tokens in multisig wallets, requiring both the licensee and the DMV to approve of transfers (or add a third signer and go with two of three). A fair bit more centralized than what's ideal, but the very concept of a state-issued license or registration is already implicitly centralized anyway.
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